The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

Twiss, Katheryn C.

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“…Colonization causes new connections and relationships between migrating humans and their cultural and natural environments that can be examined through studying dietary change (Twiss, 2012). Originating from South-East Asia, the first settlers of the Pacific region east of the Solomon archipelago are associated with the Lapita culture that appeared about 3300 years ago in north Melanesia (Summerhayes et al, 2010;Skoglund et al, 2016;Valentin et al, 2016).…”

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Multi-isotopic analysis of first Polynesian diet (Talasiu, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga)

Herrscher¹,

Fenner²,

Valentin³

et al. 2018

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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A B S T R A C TBoth archaeological and isotopic data document dietary changes over the first five centuries of Western Pacific island settlement, a time period beginning with the Lapita expansion about 3000 years ago. This change is marked by a decrease in marine food intake and an increase in vegetal food intake occurring in the Late Lapita/ immediately post-Lapita populations. The recent discovery of human burials at Talasiu (~2700-2600 cal. BP) in the Kingdom of Tonga opens new opportunities to assess this matter. We characterize the nature of the food items consumed by the Talasiu humans (n = 21) using collagen and apatite carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. We conducted an intra-Pacific comparison to examine the use of marine resources and the contribution of horticultural products and to look at the homogeneity of dietary practices within the Tongan group. Isotope results indicate a mixed diet of terrestrial and marine resources including a differential contribution of more specific marine foods (e.g., non-reef fish/inshore fish and shellfish). The Talasiu dietary pattern appears closer to that of the early Lapita population of Teouma than to other Late Lapita populations suggesting a different pattern of dietary change at the eastern end of the Lapita distribution. The slower rate of change may be due to the small size of both the island and the population, and also the additional potential role of social or cultural factors.

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Multi-isotopic analysis of first Polynesian diet (Talasiu, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga)

Herrscher¹,

Fenner²,

Valentin³

et al. 2018

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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“…In recognition of the multifarious role of food, research on food is expanding beyond its biological, dietary and nutritional functions with scholars exploring how food and its production, cooking, eating, storage and discard behaviours are related to sociocultural norms and social diversity in a society and nation (Kong & Sinha 2016, Twiss 2012. A community's foodways, the way in which a society perceives, prepares, uses and consumes food is believed to signify its values, mindsets and identity.…”

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Feasting on Culture and Identity: Food Functions in a Multicultural and Transcultural Malaysia

Perry

2017

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“…En un tema tan fundamental como las costumbres alimentarias sobre animales (Twiss 2012), tema principal de una mayoría del arte sahariano, sorprende también la escasa entidad de las investigaciones hasta el presente. Existen datos etnoarqueológicos sobre costumbres alimenticias en África (Dietler & Herbich 2001), pero resulta extraña la ausencia general de este tipo de estudios para el Sahara.…”

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Interpretación del Arte Rupestre Centro-Sahariano: una aproximación al estilo de Cabezas Redondas = Interpretation of Central Sahara Rock Art: an approach to The Round Head style

Teslaar

2015

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In the last decades the study of Sahara rock art has developed its own agenda within prehistoric research and taken off as an archaeological sub-discipline. Africa has gone from being seen as an empty continent to an autonomous source of culture, and the Sahara as a container of an immense cultural and artistic legacy whose scope researchers are only now starting to comprehend. This cultural and artistic legacy is the object of many studies aimed at understanding the specific contexts of art production. The characteristic style of Tètes Rondes is the one whose interpretation poses the most difficulties to researchers. For this reason it occupies an important part of this article. The lack of contextual information (material remains) that would help validate or refute hypotheses made by researchers and the importance of not settling for a 'superficial' reading of the images for the study of the art, are some of the aspects that will be examined. This article holds that to overcome some of these problems it is essential to use open-ended approaches that will allow initial premises not to be constrained from the offset by broader theoretical currents. Adapting the interpretative theories to the archaeological remains, and not the other way around, is fundamental to the improvement of our knowledge of the past.

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The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

Cited by 169 publications

References 111 publications

Multi-isotopic analysis of first Polynesian diet (Talasiu, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga)

Multi-isotopic analysis of first Polynesian diet (Talasiu, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga)

Feasting on Culture and Identity: Food Functions in a Multicultural and Transcultural Malaysia

Interpretación del Arte Rupestre Centro-Sahariano: una aproximación al estilo de Cabezas Redondas = Interpretation of Central Sahara Rock Art: an approach to The Round Head style

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